"The earth belongs to the living. No man……" — Thomas Jefferson

The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right,… - Thomas Jefferson

"The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that occupation, to the payment of debts contracted by him. For if he could, he might, during his own life, eat up the use of the lands for several generations to come, and then the lands would belong to the dead, and not to the living. No generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence."

— Thomas Jefferson

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